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Monthly Archives: October 2020

Music games with Nursery

Over the last few weeks the Reception and Nursery children have joined together in their ‘bubble’ to play some Music games in the Hall. The Reception children have tried hard to look after their Nursery friends and to encourage them to join in.

Well Being in Year 2

Year 2 have been enjoying their Well Being Wednesday sessions. This week we read the Rainbow Fish. We talked about sharing our talents with each other. The children all made a fin and we made our own rainbow fish with lots of glitter! We designed our own rainbow fish. We enjoyed experimenting with paints. Continue Reading

Who was Winston Churchill?

As part of our WW2 topic, Year 6 have been researching the life of Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill was one of the most influential leaders of all time. He was the prime minister of Britain during World War II and was also involved in the government during World War I. Churchill was a leader, a… Continue Reading

Autumn

The children in Reception have been finding out about Autumn. We have observed the changes in the leaves on the trees, collected and sorted the leaves into different colours and looked at their different shapes and sizes. Last week we learnt some songs about Autumn – we particularly liked the one about raking the leaves… Continue Reading

First Communion Service

Today at St Lawrence’s Church eight of our children finally made their First Holy Communion. The children have been preparing to receive the Sacrament since last year and missed their planned service during lockdown. We were finally able to come together today at St Lawrence’s Church with our families to celebrate the Sacrament. The service… Continue Reading

Liturgy Zoom in Year 2

Year 2 planned and took part in our first ever Zoom Liturgy on Friday. The children wanted to invite their parents but due to the current Covid restrictions we did the next best thing; we invited our parents through Zoom! We planned the Liturgy together using the structure of the mass. We shared prayers which… Continue Reading

Mark Making in Year 1

The children have been learning about the artist, John Constable in their art work this term.  As an introduction to their new topic, the children were given the opportunity to experiment with different coloured paints and range of tools so that they too could become mini artists.  We are building up to doing our own… Continue Reading